Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal

Nightingale

Paisley Rekdal

96 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Nightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid’s epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal’s characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary hum...

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